Coveting and socialism are more or less synonymous. The whole socialist edifice is built upon some people coveting and confiscating the goods made by others.
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Prize giving time for the worst decisions of 2011.
In The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer wrote that “it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it [Mein Kampf] before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there was still time, both Germany and the world might have been saved from catastrophe”. […]
Mr Cohen, and those of his political ilk, should take some time to reflect on whether their good intentions actually do more harm than good. If only they would at least reflect on the evidence, instead of moving in robotic fashion to the next piece of social engineering.
You can never keep the Greens happy, short of converting Australia into a defenceless, impoverished, wind and solar powered, bicycle-friendly, forested, backwater, albeit criss-crossed with high-speed rail.
The danger is that someone in government, particularly on the Left/Greens side, might actually think there is some sense to Robert Leeson’s arguments, when, of course, there is none at all.
In one of those tepid “all things to all men” editorials in The Australian - how it manages to get tagged as being conservative is beyond me - it described Mr Abbott as being especially audacious in scouring the budget for savings while rejecting revenue from “massively successful export industries...willing to pay a larger share”. There goes that word again.
Gough Whitlam was my first experience of a Labor government in Australia. True I was a little left at the time but in retrospect I can’t help feeling warmness towards Gough and can understand Jim Cairn’s longing for a lost hippy youth with Junie Morosi.
I doubt whether this combination of circumstances is ever likely to arise again. We are suffering a rare event: a perfect storm of incompetence, impotence, extremism, and delusions of grandeur.
The OWS protesters and those copying them in other parts of the world have been criticised for being incoherent. In fact, they are truly representative of the Left.
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